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[quote user="amperidian"] To me Russian music is not about joy and musicality (unless you specifically consider Tchaikovsky), but instead it tends to portray the bleak and tragic history of that nation and the iron will that was forged through it.&nb...
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Following the recent thread about the Prokoviev’s “Hale to Stalin” I would like to pitch to the choral music lovers one more name. Russian Orthodox liturgy mostly sucks. There was a dozen of Russkis composers who composed Russian chants: Totov, Grech...
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Only with the finest of Russ drinking vodkas, then off to Jose Quervo Five Gold Coinand something really salty... then we can sing to the domes and they will clean themselves, without our having to have a Memorex moment and scouring them with our ton...
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A few months John Hasquin sent me a picture of someone’s horns suggesting … actually he did not suggested anything but after I saw the picture I was laughing hard and quite long. I found that those horns were very symptomatic to the most horns ...
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Yes, the similarity between the horn system and the Baba-Jaga hut on fowl's legs is uncanny. The system might be only loosely based on text book principles, but did you notice the use of cotton isolated wire connecting the speaker syst...
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I just returned home from an evening of Russian music in Seattle - Pletnev and RNO performing Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. The program began with Rachmaninoff Vocalise, then Piano Concerto #3 (Alexander Mogilevsky on piano) and ...
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Scott, I do not see which Vocalise it is. The LYS have managed to published a huge amount of Koussevitzky recordings before their ass got kicked and I think thsy have 3 versions Koussevitzky’s Vocalisess… Get any of them, it will do... This ...
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[quote user="yoshi"]Unfortunately, we also have the lists of "Audiophile recommended CDs" on every audio related publications in Japan. I refer to them as something I should avoid.[/quote]Avoid? Not necessarily. Yoshi, It is not about the fact ...
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A film director Alexander Sokurov, the Andrei Tarkovsky’s pupil, will direct the Bolshoi's new production of "Boris Godunov. In April 27". I hope it will be proporly filmed and made available.
By Raymond StultsPublished: April 20, 2007
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I think there were few homes that “do music” and who did not play today Mstislav Rostropovich. I do not know why but I got today distressing with news about Rostropovich death much more then I would expect from a death of a person that I did not know...
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[quote user="amperidian"] To me Russian music is not about joy and musicality (unless you specifically consider Tchaikovsky), but instead it tends to portray the bleak and tragic history of that nation and the iron will that was forged through it.&nb...
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There is a speaker maker in Russia, Moscow – Alexander Kniysev who just introduced his own take on “Resonance Oops”. What he does is not my cap of tea and I see a number of issues with his design that I would object but it is not my speaker. Neverthe...
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Since I can't read Cyrillic/Russian, I may never know anything significant about these wonderful piano/trombone duets. I am guessing from dates on the label that the compositions are from the early 1800s through the 1930s.The album jac...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]There was a cool Russian-made tube GU-48... I do not think that it would be worse; in fact I think it might be even better… [/quote]Wait, Romy, you think a RUSSIAN product might be better? That is a surprise!:)Seriously t...
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Nope, the Russian tubes generally much, in fact much worse than western equivalents. There were however some exceptions. Those options were due to various reasons. The tubes like GM70, YO186, 1P24B, 6E5P, 6N30P, BO188, GM57, UB180, 6C33C, 6N6P, M...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I will still buy clean Seraphims with good program material if I do not have the original. If I do have the original, I pass on the Seraphim, even as a "back-up", UNLESS it is a record I have loved so much that I am killing it.M...
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Denis Matsuev plays the Russian Premiere of Rachmaninoff-Warenberg's Fifth Piano Concerto with National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under Spivakov....
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Guys from a Russian audio site come up with an idea of MM corrector that I find very interesting, take a look – it is self-explanatory. The firs tube is Russian equivalent of 7788. The second is “my” 6E5P, though I would use 7721 – sounds better in o...
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HiRussian variant of the amplifier:http://datagor.ru/blogs/lantug/957-rr-6s33s.html...
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I saw today link of a Russian guy who was trying to make set a playback around JBL-2490.
http://photofile.ru/users/yras/3860502/all/?mode=xlarge
The speaker turn out to be a ridicules – 2490 in upperbass shorted version of WE horn...
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There is a Russian guy Dmitry Gubchenco who claims the he makes custom installations using horn-loading topology:
http://www.audio-tube.ru/
I am not thrilled with what I see but it was not made for me. Anyhow, it looks like the gu...
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I have used thick wool felt around the perimeter of my round horns at times. Having owned a pair of ROGERS LS3/5a's in my youth and being amazed at the huge sound those little speakers could effect one tries to re-use ideas. Diffraction control is ...
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The funny and poor Tuyen. It looks like another audio guy, as Russians says, “went over the hands”. The “went over the hands” is a very interesting Russian idiom that use very frequently apply to audio people. Years back it was once very deservin...
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Russian festival of 3 century
of cello. Very nice Bach the second son, Lalo, Vivaldi and Shnitke under Dmitry Jurowski. Skip first
7 minutes....
http://meloman.ru/concert/tri-veka-violonchelikoncert-zakrytie-vi-mezhdunarodnogobrviolonc...
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I love Russian orchestral music but have never been a fan of Russian solo piano music. Even their chamber music I find meh with only a few exceptions. ...
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt61U17AxWC/
No special bias sauce, it seems.
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For God's sake it's an old Tannoy red with standard vintage Tannoy crossover muddied by scan speak pseudo passive radiator in accidental enclosure driven by a run of a mill Yamaha amp. ...
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[quote user="op.9"]Pure Russian music? You have missed out the great master Tanayev! Almost alone, he manages to combine that true Russian sound with our counterproductive western accountantcy.[/quote] Actually it was not Tanayev but Taneyev. Despise...
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[quote user="Amphissa"]I do not know how well he knew the music of Mahler. Certainly they have some ideas in common, but Myaskovsky was never as ostentatious as Mahler. Of course, he was a much more versatile composer than Mahler. Mahler had a few id...
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I was listening today the Bolshoy 1948 production on LYS twice. What the beauty. As the tribute to this performance I am posting articles about the singers who did the “Boris Godunov” with Golovanov in 1948. The Articles are courtesy to writing staff...
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